boer

== Afrikaans == === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /buːr/ === Etymology 1 === From Dutch boer. ==== Noun ==== boer (plural boere, diminutive boertjie) A farmer; peasant. (chess) A pawn; least valuable piece in chess. Synonym: pion ===== Derived terms ===== ===== Descendants ===== → English: Boer === Etymology 2 === From Dutch boeren. ==== Verb ==== boer (present boer, present participle boerende, past participle geboer) To farm. To continuously encounter someone at a specific place To stay; to sojourn; to linger == Danish == === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /boːər/, [ˈb̥oːˀɐ] === Etymology 1 === From Dutch boer. ==== Noun ==== boer c (singular definite boeren, plural indefinite boere) A Boer. ===== Inflection ===== ===== Further reading ===== boer on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia da === Etymology 2 === See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form. ==== Noun ==== boer indefinite plural of bo == Dutch == === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /bur/, [buːr] Hyphenation: boer Rhymes: -ur Homophone: Boer === Etymology 1 === From Middle Dutch bure, from Old Dutch *būr, from Proto-West Germanic *būr, from Proto-Germanic *būraz (“dweller, inhabitant”), thus originally the same as modern buur (“neighbour”). The form boer is that of many eastern dialects including Limburgish, where Germanic -ū- has been retained as a back vowel. In early modern Dutch these two dialectal forms were adopted as semantically distinguished words. Cognate to Old English būr, ġebūr (whence English bower) and Old High German būr (whence German Bauer). ==== Noun ==== boer m (plural boeren, diminutive boertje n, feminine boerin) a (male) farmer, peasant Synonym: bouwman Hyponyms: landbouwer, teler, tuinder, veehouder a boor, yokel, ruffian, rustic Synonym: boerenpummel (in compounds) a merchant (and sometimes producer) of a certain product group, mainly foods, often named after it, e.g. melkboer 'milkman', groenteboer '(male) greengrocer' a jack (playing card) ===== Alternative forms ===== bouwer ===== Derived terms ===== ===== Related terms ===== ===== Descendants ===== Afrikaans: boer→ English: Boer Jersey Dutch: bûr → English: boor → Sranan Tongo: buru→ Caribbean Javanese: bulman, bulmang, buru→ Dutch: boeroe === Etymology 2 === Originally onomatopoeic, as is English burp. The perception of farmers (etymology 1) as being mannerless people has probably played a secondary role, too. The same in German Bäuerchen. ==== Noun ==== boer m (plural boeren, diminutive boertje n) a belch, a burp ===== Derived terms ===== === Etymology 3 === See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form. ==== Verb ==== boer inflection of boeren: first-person singular present indicative (in case of inversion) second-person singular present indicative imperative === Anagrams === bore ober == Latin == === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈbo.ɛr] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈbɔː.er] === Verb === boer first-person singular present passive subjunctive of boō == Luxembourgish == === Alternative forms === bor (superseded spelling, but still possible pronunciation) === Etymology === From Middle High German and Old High German bar (“bare, naked, pure”). Cognate with German bar, Dutch bar and baar, English bare. The expected Luxembourgish form is *buer; the form bo(e)r requires original length (Middle High German *bār). Probably due to some kind of analogy. Perhaps with Middle High German klār, whence kloer (“clear”), on which it touched in the sense of “pure”; compare older German bar for “apparent, obvious”. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): [ˈboː.ɐ], (less often) [boːʀ], [boˑə̯] Homophone: Bor (monosyllabic) === Adjective === boer (masculine boren, neuter boert, not comparable) cash == Norwegian Bokmål == === Etymology === From Dutch boer. === Noun === boer m (definite singular boeren, indefinite plural boere, definite plural boerne) (historical) A Boer. ==== Related terms ==== afrikander === See also === boar (Nynorsk) === References === “boer” in The Bokmål Dictionary. == Norwegian Nynorsk == === Noun === boer m (definite singular boeren, indefinite plural boerar, definite plural boerane) (pre-1987) alternative form of boar === Anagrams === bore